Vienna has been the scene of a brief but violent
enieute, which apparently arose from resentment at the -acquittal after a long trial of. three young " Front Fighters," charged with killing a; Socialist and a child in the Bergen- land five months ago. - Communists either initiated the trouble or seized the opportunity for egging on- anyone_ inclined to disorder or revolution. Many of them were arrested, and there are the expected rumours of the complicity of the Soviet Legation. Factory workmen and others stormed and burnt the Law Courts with its records. By the evening of last Friday three newspaper offices had been wrecked, but the street-fighting ceased. The armed Socialists who call themselves the Defence Guard were active in trying to keep order independently of the police. Both had been firing freely in the streets. Three policemen and eighty others are reported killed. A strike of most of the postal and railway servants represented the " general " strike that was called. It was at an end by midnight on Monday. The country folk of Austria showed no sympathy whatever with the uprising or striking. Dr. Seipel will now summon Parliament, which he will meet with increased prestige. In a leading article we have tried to appraise the seriousness of the affair. * * * *
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